What makes recognition without awareness appear to be elusive? Strategic factors that influence the accuracy of guesses

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 460-468

  Voss, Joel L ^a   Paller, Ken A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956707393     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1896010     Document Type: Article

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